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Originally posted by MusicWorld@22 April 2003 - 09:43
How do you as an artist feel or going to feel when one person around here buys a CD of yours and starts spreading it around?Because that is what this community is about...file sharing.
Most of us will go buy an album from an artist if we really like their Music but not all of us.
Just would like to get an artist point of view on this subject as it tears at me sometimes and have talked about it before.Are we helping an artist or hurting them?And how can we help shape the future for both sides? :huh:
Well we are fortunate in this case because we are not popular enough that people would rip our album and then that others would even download it.. so we keep the album exclusive tracks tucked away and the singles we spread like wildfire. BUT if we did put out a cd ourselves and someone ripped it and made the whole thing available.. it would hurt us, why? because we arent THAT popular where, yeah even if a million people downloaded the album, there is still 500,000 that actually purchased it.. in our case it would be that there was 1000 that downloaded it and maybe only a small handful that purchased the actual album you know? If we had mass distribution and mtv exposure and massive radio airplay and all that then we would still make some money out of the deal.. but since we dont.. then it would only hurt us.